Religion and Gender across Europe

Gender and regional differences in perceived job stress across Europe.

BACKGROUND Over the last 20 years stress at work has been found to be predictive of several conditions such as coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and non-specific sick leave. The Karasek demand/control/strain concept has been the most widely used in prospective epidemiological studies. OBJECTIVES To describe distribution in Karasek's demand/control (DC) dimensions as well as prevalen...

Religion and Fertility in Western Europe: Trends Across Cohorts in Britain, France and the Netherlands

The role of religion in explaining fertility differences is often overlooked in demographic studies, particularly in Western Europe, where there has been a substantial decline in institutional forms of religious adherence. The current study explores the changing relationships between religion and childbearing in Britain, France and the Netherlands. Using data from the Generations and Gender Pro...

Religion and Higher Education Achievement in Europe

The cultural life script of Qatar and across cultures: effects of gender and religion.

Cultural life scripts (CLS) are culturally shared cognitive representations of the expected order and timing of important life events in a prototypical life. Through three studies data from Qatar were analysed and compared to previously collected data from Denmark, Turkey, and the US. In Study 1 we examined the CLS of Qatar in order to determine whether the clear segregation of men and women as...

Religion, Religiousness and Fertility in the U.S. and in Europe